How's the Weather? It's Scary!

[AssKissinger]

I don't mean to be an end of the world alarmist but what the fuck is going on? I have never seen so many hurricanes and typhoons and floodings (like in Bangladesh)! Is this normal or some kind of global warming thing or El Nino or something?

[Taro Toporific]

...Is this normal or some kind of global warming thing or El Nino or something?

Hey, has Mobile Alabama floated away? Has the Big Easy lucked out?

neo-proto-Nippo El Nino

[Captain Japan]

I don't mean to be an end of the world alarmist but what the fuck is going on? I have never seen so many hurricanes and typhoons and floodings (like in Bangladesh)! Is this normal or some kind of global warming thing or El Nino or something?

Though I won't say that it is to blame for the strange weather lately, an El Nino is indeed coming:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A mild El Nino is developing in the Pacific Ocean, climate experts said Friday. El Ninos can affect weather in other areas, sometimes worldwide.

El Ninos occur about every four to five years and can last up to 12 to 18 months. The effects can range from drought in Indonesia, Australia and Africa, to storms in California and floods elsewhere.

The 1997-98 El Nino caused an estimated $20 billion in damage worldwide.

If you remember back to 97-98, there was that blizzard in Tokyo in early January and the South Pacific suffered through a drought.

[Taro Toporific]

If you remember back to 97-98, there was that blizzard in Tokyo in early January and the South Pacific suffered through a drought.

As any old fart will tell you, before the 90s it used to snow a fair bit every winter in Tokyo. One good blizzard was expected (and missed by me since it's a paid day off).

[Bongo]

Don't worry, it is simply the planets built in anti Bush mechanism.
Once it blows Bubba back to texas in November, things will calm down.

[AssKissinger]

Heavy rain in Japan leaves 23 dead or missing by Hiroshi Hiyama
Wed Jul 19, 11:40 AM ET



Heavy rain in Japan triggered floods and mudslides that swallowed houses and destroyed roads, with at least 12 people killed and 11 missing since the start of the rainy season.

The rain has also been devastating in the neighboring Korean peninsula. At least 150 people there are believed dead or missing, mostly in the impoverished communist North, according to officials and aid workers Wednesday.

From western to central Japan, residents evacuated houses for shelters as muddy water swamped city streets and mudslides tore up highways.

The weather temporarily caused Shinkansen bullet trains to stop as the weather agency warned of more to come.

"We believed we were living on firm ground. So this is very shocking," a middle-aged woman told Fuji television after a landslide in central Fukui prefecture.

As much as 500 millimeters (20 inches) of rain has drenched parts of Japan since Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Heavy rain was expected to continue from western to central Japan with "continued risks of serious disasters," an agency advisory said. "Strong caution is needed for landslides and rising rivers causing floods."

Five people died in central Nagano prefecture including a 75-year-old man whose body was found inside a house that was shoved back some 50 meters (160 feet) by a flash flood, officials were quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying.

At least six others went missing in the mountainous province including one rescuer. Nagano authorities piled sandbags to protect residential areas after banks of the major Tenryu river collapsed.

In western Shimane prefecture, a 15-year-old was found dead on flooded farmland after he fled for shelter with his grandparents, police said. "We are yet to learn the whereabouts of his grandparents," a local police officer said.

Rescuers in Shimane also dug an unconscious 69-year-old woman out of her house that was levelled by a mudslide. She was declared dead as paramedics transported her to a hospital, police said.

Her 67-year-old husband managed to dig himself out shortly after the mudslide with only minor injuries.

A 66-year-old man at Yamanashi near Mount Fuji died after falling into a swollen river, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

One mudslide -- which stretched 60 meters wide -- plunged for some 30 meters to destroy the house in Fukui prefecture of a man who went missing along with his 75-year-old mother. A body thought to be the mother was later found, according to police and prefectural officials.

The mudslide also hit a liquefied petroleum gas storage tank, causing a leak that forced an evacuation.

An 80-year-old woman was also found dead after a mudslide buried her house in Okayama prefecture, Kyodo said.

The disaster agency said two other people had died since the rainy season began last month, with one of them buried by a mudslide in late June and the other falling into an irrigation system earlier this month.

Thirty-two people have been injured, four of them seriously, the agency said. Sections of highways were closed by mudslides or cave-ins.

Eleven people remained unaccounted for across Japan, according to the agency.

[Sarutaro]

"We believed we were living on firm ground. So this is very shocking," a middle-aged woman told Fuji television after a landslide in central Fukui prefecture.

With daily earthquakes and a vulcano as a national symbol the Japanese ground is as far from firm as you can get!

[(1VB)freels]

It's still sunny and hot here int So Cal??? Might be from all the fire....

[Greji]

It's still sunny and hot here int So Cal??? Might be from all the fire....

Hey, you're at Point Magoo! According to the soothsayers, when the San Andreas splits in two, you gotta start swiming. Of course they have been predicting that for the last fifty years!

[sillygirl]

English people are so gay in hot weather....should see 'em melting, whinging etc.

Pah! Everyone taking sickies:

http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/07/19/36465/Employees+take+sickies+in+latest+UK+heatwave.htm

Ooh, hottest day in England EVER! http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46653.html

[Greji]

English people are so gay in hot weather....should see 'em melting, whinging etc.

So now you're gay in the summer heat and you got all after me for questioning the dragon's preferences. I hope Brucie barfs all down your back for even thinking that!

[sillygirl]

So now you're gay in the summer heat and you got all after me for questioning the dragon's preferences. I hope Brucie barfs all down your back for even thinking that!

*shakes head*

No. You forgot his middle name!

(Hard bastard)

[otakuden]

along with the hurricanes and typhoons, don't forget the eathquakes, tsunamis, draught, melting icebergs, fires, and plagues. r0ck on!
yeah, i agree. it's rather fucked up at the moment.

[otakuden]

English people are so gay in hot weather....should see 'em melting, whinging etc.

Pah! Everyone taking sickies:

http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2006/07/19/36465/Employees+take+sickies+in+latest+UK+heatwave.htm

Ooh, hottest day in England EVER! http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46653.html

pft. pussies. u try n take a sick day on me n i'll kick ur ass